Cambridge built a planet-scale AI model, and skipped Nvidia to do it

The Next Webby Ana-Maria StanciucJuly 23, 2026tech

The AI industry runs on Nvidia. A team at the University of Cambridge has just shown it does not have to. They have built a planetary-scale foundation model for the Earth, and every chip that trained and ran it came from AMD. The model is called TESSERA, and its idea is borrowed from large language […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Cambridge built a planet-scale AI model, and skipped Nvidia to do it

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